2/17/2012

Survey says: Dissatisfaction with their electromagnetic machine purchases. Why? Because many are built by substandard builders who are also substandard artists and in many more cases not artists at all. Yet the bottom line is that an educated artist would HAVE NO PROBLEMS DIAGNOSING, REPAIRING, MODIFYING AND FINE TUNING ANY ELECTRO MAGNETIC MACHINE

NOW FOR THE HAHAHAHAHAHA!!

One of our suppliers has just notified us that his sales of the NEO TAT rotary product yielded 3 returns with burned out Chinese motors, out of a box of 12... and is pretty sure that more will come back. Have you fallen for the mass marketing campaign? will you? We hope not. The rotary is thought to be a user friendly no brainer for the artists who could not be bothered to learn about their electro magnetic machine but now with statistics like 3 out of 10 coming back with more on the way, is this a real option? This, choice in reality was 500 dollar purchase for a little plastic housing with a toy RC car motor in it. Rotary manufacturers are copying each other and making the rotary product cheaper and cheaper, the same way the duplicators of the standard electro magnetic machine have been doing things. What is standard?

The electro magnetic machine... still after 100 years, the most versatile machine around.

IN OUR UNREGULATED INDUSTRY RUN BY SUPPLY AND DEMAND, WE ARTISTS HAVE THE POWER TO CONTROL WHO COMES IN AND WHO DOESN'T SIMPLY BY NOT PURCHASING SUBSTANDARD PRODUCTS. GET IT? COMPANIES WHO DO NOT SELL PRODUCTS, DO NOT STAY IN BUSINESS. IT'S EASY TO COMPLAIN. TAKING ACTION IS ANOTHER THING.

WHAT IS STANDARD IN MACHINE TECHNOLOGY? FOR THESE SUBSTANDARD BUILDERS, IT'S THE FACT THAT THE ARMATURE BAR GOES UP AND DOWN. NEVER MIND IMPORTANT FACTORS LIKE INCREMENTAL SENSITIVITY! CORRECT SPRING GAUGE AND TENSION! CAPACITANCE AND POLARITY & MATERIALS.

GET THIS ONE!! HERE'S A POWER SUPPLY WITH A KNOB MARKED SPEED CONTROL!!! WHAT THE F*CK! ANYONE WHO THINKS THE DIAL ON ANY POWER SUPPLY CONTROLS SPEED (WITH REGARD TO THE ELECTROMAGNETIC TATTOO MACHINE), SHOULD RE CONSIDER HIS POSITION AS 'TATTOO ARTIST'!! SEE WHAT WE MEAN??? BLIND LEADING THE BLIND.

There is a science to this & it's relatively simple. Learn it or don't. Suffer with your dissatisfaction or do something about it.

2/03/2012

"It was sometime in 2002, I was busy producing art and skateboarding films. I had just finished a unique skateboard lifestyle film, called “DAZE IN THE LIFE“. In that film I edited a part featuring Eric Dressen skateboarding. The segment follows him to a late night tattoo spot in Los Angeles, where he gets a calf piece by Clay Decker. The films chapter was well received. The details of the tattoo process were visually exposed through the artist’s eye without losing the cultural integrity.

One day not too long after, a dvd sales manager named Tom Allen, approached me to create a tattoo-inspired movie with skateboarding. Kind of like what I did in “DAZE IN THE LIFE”, but full-length. He worked for a distributor that carried my film.

It was pretty much a no brainer. I grew up in the era that dawned the birth of this fusion before anything like that was considered cool at school. You were pretty much a fool. It was taboo in the 1970’s -mid 1980’s for surfers or skateboarders to sport big tatt’s. An outlaw’s detail, if you will.

Tough people had tattoos, back then. People kicking the shit out of other people, shooting them with guns, over tattoos. I’d seen a few things “Pop-Off” while growing up in Los Angeles, as an artist that skateboards and surfs. Expressionist perspectives became clear on the streets. These sub-cultures, along with the music, naturally merged and eventually influenced the way of the lifestyles. Art and sport, a hybrid culture bound only by the limits of the individual’s imagination. All it’s own. Filled with rich and colorful characters.

Originally, I wanted to name the project, “Scarred For Life”. But, a skateboard book already had this title. That’s when Tom offered up the title “Skinned Alive”. Now, there was an older B-type horror movie with the same title. But this project was completely different. It was a documentary based on reality. Professional skateboarding and tattooing unveiled !

All I know is, that if I were committed to diving into these 2 highly respected and diverse lifestyles, I did NOT want to BULLSHIT ! That was my job as a filmmaker.

Bring out the grit and the gristle. The love and the passion that came along with those that pioneered it. It had to star those that were at the forefront of this revolution. This project would not be done without Art and Steve Godoy in it, period.

They are the catalyst in the stories and godfathers to it’s bastard style. Fred Smith, a partner in crime, with their disciples Jason Jessee and Bill Danforth. We needed to feature some of the O.G.’s like Mark Mahoney, Danny Romo and Tim Hendricks, who’ve been slinging the ink to these guys. And those Pro’s that were influenced soon after, Eric Dressen, Jesse Martinez, Neil Heddings and Kyle Yanagimoto.

What “SKINNED ALIVE” did NOT need to be was the saturated and imitated aftermath of mainstream fashion. This was the moment I realized I had to make this film before someone else made it with the wrong people in it. Authenticity is a natural and essential quality in good documentary films. Something that translates with the subject’s in this film. If anyone has the jurisdiction to discuss and educate us about the history and interrelationships of these professional lifestyles, it’s this cast.

They are legend, the footage is classic and the interviews are candid. The editing is colorful and the actions very real. It is a quintessential, first and definitive film of its kind. Check it out ! You won’t be disappointed."

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SEMINARS ON THE ELECTROMAGNETIC TATTOO MACHINE.
REQUIREMENTS:
- MINIMUM 15 PEOPLE PER SEMINAR, PROFESSIONAL ARTISTS ONLY - ARTISTS WHO WORK IN STUDIOS.
The Godoy Machines tattoo machine seminar provides a complete dissection of the electromagnetic tattoo machine. Detailed descriptions of the scope of the electromagnetic tattoo machine. Including material, properties and function, manufacturing, assembly, insulation, magnetic field, capacitors, capacitance, polarity, wire - gauges, layers turns...everything a professional tattoo artist needs to know - including the tattoo machine's function as applied to technique. This is a 6 - 9 hour class, depending on the number of participants. Sometimes the class can be divided over 2 days. This is the most thorough and complete seminar offered anywhere.
We charge 300 dollars or Euros per person. This covers our cost to travel and accommodation - wether we travel to Europe or any other continent. This 300 dollar (or Euro) cost pays for material and tools which the class will use to repair their machines - taps, dyes, hole punches, Dremmel, files, heat shrink, capacitor(s), screws, binding posts, contact screws etc. This price also pays the shipping costs to send the tools and materials. The 300 dollar (or Euro) charge also absorbs the cost of paying the organizer a percentage to help with the expense of the rented hall.
We cannot offer "FREE" seminars due to these costs. FREE seminars at any convention or events will not be considered.